General (Ret) Vincenzo Camporini

Vice PresidentIAI Istituto Affari Internazionali

Enlisted in the Air Force Academy in 1965,Vincenzo Camporini
rose through the ranks to eventually take up the highest office of
Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force (2006-08) and Chief of Defence
General Staff (2008-11). A graduate in Aeronautical Sciences at the
University of Naples Federico II and in International and Diplomatic
Sciences at the University of Trieste, Camporini has also dealt with the
most topical issues of international politics as a scholar and
academic, focusing on the political-military dimension of the European
Union and the development of its ability to use the military instrument
in the framework of its external relations. Among other things, he was
President of the Centre for High Defence Studies, Rome (2004-06).